ILX All-Time Film and Morbsies Poll: RESULTS Thread for ILX's Favorite Movies, Films, Cinema, Flicks & Moving Pictures

I thought this would be higher

I thought Best in Show was considered the Christopher Guest pick.

xp Me too

I was just thinking on the weekend how the fact that the group had been together 20 years was one of the jokes about how out of touch they were. Now, they would probably be announcing their 60th anniversary tour and no-one would find it strange.

I thought this would be higher

I thought it would go to 11?!?

i have to note that introducing somebody to Spinal Tap and them not really feeling it is an excruciating moment

(I, too, love The Godfather at #92. Because I do actually like the movie fwiw.)

― Milm & Foovies (Eric H.), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 bookmarkflaglink

It's great btw, there are just 91 films that are better.

(DJP's screenname on the Tap quote btw is why I love finding old quotes)

i have to note that introducing somebody to Spinal Tap and them not really feeling it is an excruciating moment

Probably not the last time this could be said during this rollout.

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88. JOHNNY GUITAR (Nicholas Ray, 1954, USA) [651 points; 6 votes]
S&S: 279 | TSPDT: 246 | BOXD: DNP

MORBS SEZ: would've considered JG if any of the rest of it was in this ballpark:

Johnny: How many men have you forgotten?
Vienna: As many women as you've remembered.
Johnny: Don't go away.
Vienna: I haven't moved.
Johnny: Tell me something nice.
Vienna: Sure, what do you want to hear?
Johnny: Lie to me. Tell me all these years you've waited. Tell me.
Vienna: [without feeling] All those years I've waited.
Johnny: Tell me you'd a-died if I hadn't come back.
Vienna: [without feeling] I woulda died if you hadn't come back.
Johnny: Tell me you still love me like I love you.
Vienna: [without feeling] I still love you like you love me.
Johnny: [bitterly] Thanks. Thanks a lot."

Starring Joan Crawford in Red, Mercedes McCambridge in White (with a voice scarier than the one she provided for The Devil in The Exorcist), and, oh yeah, Sterling Hayden as the title character.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, November 18, 2008 10:15 PM

I'm a terrible gay for not loving Johnny Guitar.
― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, August 12, 2011 7:41 AM

Can confirm, Alfred is a terrible gay.

I think Johnny Guitar is a blast, but my top Ray pick would be In a Lonely Place.

I'm fonder of it now. Gays too!

Tipsy otm. Also: Bitter Victory

In a Lonely Place and Johnny Guitar more or less tied for first for me.

johnny guitar RULES

i saw it in a theater where a bunch of uncultured teenagers laughed at it!!!! but i??? i fell in love

i should do a ray double feature when i finish the book of in a lonely place

Also: Bigger than Life!

I like They Live By Night but not as much as Altman's remake, Thieves Like Us.

Convinced there was never a great film that was not laughed at in rep screenings.

Anyone willing to make a case for The Savage Innocents?

Ray also made one of the key Mitchum films, The Lusty Men.

Ray assembles movies with marvelous scenes and bat shit stupid scenes sometimes seconds from each other yet he gets away with it.

Spinal Tap and Christopher Guest in general are foundational for my taste in humor and movies. Along with John Waters.

I like Johnny Guitar as well as its offspring, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and I’m not even…oh wait.

Burning and A Separation were both late scratches from my list sorry. You're otm about Anatolia if that's any consolation

― ignore the blue line (or something)

It is! Looking forward to individual lists.

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87. THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE (Victor Erice, 1973, Spain) [652 points; 8 votes]
S&S: 85 | TSPDT: 105 | BOXD: DNP

MORBS SEZ: "'army of shadows' and 'spirit of the beehive' are two of the most overrated movies ever."

spirit of the beehive is the most visually stunning movie i have seen. the images stick with you and it has the finest performance by a child... ever. ana torrent was amazing.
― todd swiss (eliti), Tuesday, May 25, 2004 5:11 PM

Huge fan of Spirit of the Beehive and every single thing that Erice has done.
― Pastel City Slang (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, June 20, 2013 4:30 PM

The Spirit of the Beehive is really one of those films one just has to experience. No talking or writing about it will ever suffice.
― BabyBuddha (BabyBuddha), Thursday, April 8, 2004 8:42 AM

The other best film about what it feels like to be a little kid

Love this, and The Quince Tree Sun is even better.

The South is great too. Maybe even saw the omnibus film once, The Challenges, but can't remember.

The other best film about what it feels like to be a little kid

and Ana Torrent was in yet another one: Cria Cuervos.

Is the list this good all the way down? I like-to-love every single film that's shown up so far

Will make a special exception for ILE self-exile. Mandy was in my 25! It's so great. Hope Ceylan turns up again

The South was also in my 25, alas doubt we'll see it show up now. Beehive still fairly beguiling but that one...that one...

This is fine, ideal for Cinema 101.

would love to disagree with morbs in the present about how good army of shadows is :(

I agree with Morbs on Army of Shadows, but I've never been much for Melville.

The other best film about what it feels like to be a little kid
and Ana Torrent was in yet another one: Cria Cuervos.

― Chris L, Tuesday, October 26, 2021 12:01 PM (four minutes ago)

I appreciate it as a record of Franco's rural Spain, a time not enough films about.

I agree with Morbs on Army of Shadows, but I've never been much for Melville.

― Milm & Foovies (Eric H.),

I had to stop watching Le Doulos Sunday night. Le Samourai's the only one I can watch because of a certain feline actor in a trenchcoat.

Can imagine sitting through Léon Morin, Priest for a similar reason, swapping feline for lupine and trenchcoat for clerical collar.

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I appreciate it as a record of Franco's rural Spain, a time not enough films about.

― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, October 26, 2021 12:08 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I liked Léon Morin, Priest, but thought Army of Shadows was much more fun to watch. Voted for Le Samouraï

I ate the lasagna.

Is Melville maybe a bit For The Straights*? His thematic preoccupations are very trad masc. I'm a sucker for that stuff myself tho - LOVE Army Of Shadows, especially SPOILER the ending narration casually telling you that none of the characters we'd been following survived until the liberation. Just ice cold noir matter-of-factliness.

* I am white straight btw

My wife loved catching up w/ both Le Samourai and Le Cercle Rouge this year (I'm fully aware what part of the appeal is).

Maybe, tho even some of the directors who fit into that category (thinking John Huston) have managed at least one For The Rest stroke (The Dead).

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86. A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY (Edward Yang, 1991, Taiwan) [655.5 points; 6 votes; 1 first-place vote]
S&S: 86 | TSPDT: 124 | BOXD: 12

MORBS SEZ: "I often found his pre-Yi Yi work frustratingly languorous" (however, Morbs did give the movie a ❤️ on Letterboxd upon rescreening it)

this was absolutely magnificent, so rich and subtle and rewarding on so many levels and i resented having to take a bathroom break halfway through.
― i am a big fan of japanese women (donna rouge), Sunday, February 28, 2010 9:34 PM

A Brighter Summer's Day is totally not tedious! I found it a lot more engaging than Yi Yi, but that's just me.
― ed.b, Monday, August 25, 2014 7:45 PM

i sat through a brighter summer day in theaters and it wasn't bad
― 龜, Wednesday, March 28, 2018 8:15 PM

it is weird to me that somebody can watch all four hours of brighter summer day and respond with a shrug. i mean, that movie has so much going for it, and so much going on /in/ it, that it seems really willful to be indifferent to it. but chacun a son gout etc.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, January 7, 2015 12:48 AM

I bought the Criterion Blu-ray without having seen the film before.

I've seen this three times, and my response is more than a shrug but less than a heart. I'm glad other people love it more than I do.